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Maartje van Gelder (UvA) and Claire Judde de Larivière (University of Toulouse/Labex SMS) invite you to submit a paper proposal for the workshop “People, politics and protests in Venice (15th and 17th centuries)”, to ...

Newly published: The Landscape of Consumption

Visiting scholarship: Hidden Lives – Public Personae

3 Apr 2014

In April-May 2014, Emily Hemelrijk is a visiting professor at the University of Gothenburg. As part of her professorship, she will present four papers on women's public roles in the cities of Italy and the western ...

New project: Mapping Notes and Nodes in Networks

5 Mar 2014

Prof.Dr. Charles van den Heuvel, professor in Digital Methods and Historical Disciplines, has received a grant from the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) for a public private partnership project on the history of ...

New project: the Amsterdam public mental health care in the 20th century

Award: Dyos Prize in Urban History for Jan Hein Furnée

2 Dec 2013

Jan Hein Furnée has been awarded the Dyos Prize in Urban History for his article '‘Le bon public de la Haye’. Local governance and the audience in the French opera in The Hague, 1820–1890', Urban History 40 (2013) ...

Overhanging awnings, signs, displays in front of the façade, and basic interiors were once typical for the shops in Amsterdam. Over the past centuries, the exterior and interior of the shops have experienced major ...

Maartje van Gelder has been awarded the History Book Prize 2009-2012 of the Low Countries Society for Italian Studies for her monograph Trading Places. The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice (Brill, ...

Award: Professor Van Winter prize for Boudien de Vries

19 Sept 2013

Boudien de Vries has been awarded with the Professor Van Winter prize for her recent monograph 'Een stad vol lezers. Leescultuur in Haarlem in de negentiende eeuw' [A city full of readers. Reading culture in Haarlem ...

Newly published: Women and the Roman City in the Latin West

19 Sept 2013

Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume—which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early ...

New project: Women in Roman Syria

19 Sept 2013

Sanne Klaver has been awarded with one of the 10 PhD Fellowships of the Institute for Cultural History (UvA) for a four-year research project, starting in September 2013. The project aims to provide new insights in ...

Newly published: Individuality and Modernity in Berlin

24 June 2013

Tracing the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, Moritz Föllmer demonstrates that the demand to be recognised as an individual was central to ...

Call for papers: Iron Curtain Cities?

24 June 2013

Moritz Föllmer (UvA) and Mark B. Smith (Leeds) invite you to submit a paper proposal for their session at the European Association for Urban History Conference (EAUH) in Lisbon, 3-6 September 2014: ‘Iron Curtain ...

Visiting Scholarships: The Just City in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks

24 June 2013

As association researcher at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC), Maaike van Berkel will be conducting research in the Egyptian National Archives for her project The Just City in Egypt and Syria under ...

Call for papers: Healthscaping premodern urban communities

19 June 2013

Guy Geltner and Claire Weeda invite you to submit a paper proposal for their session at the European Association for Urban History Conference (EAUH) in Lisbon, 3-6 September 2014: ‘Healthscaping premodern urban ...

Visiting scholarship: Urban Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

19 June 2013

Maartje van Gelder and Michiel van Groesen will be Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professors at Columbia University at New York in the Fall of 2013. As part of their professorship, they will co-teach an undergraduate ...